Less Than Credible

Marks on the body: Less than credible

Less Than Credible pages that draw on Marks on the body, each with the sources shown. Start with Colares and Operation Saucer (Brazil, 1977), The Cash-Landrum incident (Texas, 1980), The Falcon Lake burns (Canada, 1967), The Villas Boas case (Brazil, 1957).

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Colares and Operation Saucer (Brazil, 1977) Almost credibleOn an island town in the Amazon, people said lights in the sky burned them and left puncture marks. Brazil's Air Force sent a team, which took…
The Cash-Landrum incident (Texas, 1980) SpeculationTwo women and a boy said a fiery object escorted by helicopters hovered over their car. They fell ill, an Army inspector investigated, and they sued…
The Falcon Lake burns (Canada, 1967) SpeculationA prospector in Manitoba said a landed craft blasted him with hot gas. Hospital staff treated burns on his chest, and Canada's police, air force and…
The Villas Boas case (Brazil, 1957) SpeculationA 23-year-old Brazilian farmer said beings took him aboard a craft in 1957. A doctor who examined him months later wrote down scars and skin lesions…

About Marks on the body

These are cases where people said an encounter with something in the sky left marks on their bodies: a Brazilian farmer examined by a doctor in 1958, an Amazon town where residents reported burns from lights, a Canadian prospector treated for burns in 1967, and two women and a boy in Texas who fell ill in 1980. The marks and illnesses were real enough to be treated or written down. What caused them is the open question.

How people see it

Scholars

MeasuredDoctors and investigators. Where tests were done, burns proved ordinary and radiation was not found on the body. Most accounts rest on one witness or on interviews years later.

Alternative readings

ClaimWitnesses and UFO researchers. The marks, symptoms and official interest show something physical happened that the official answers do not explain.

Villas Boas: Examined by Dr. Olavo Fontes in Rio de Janeiro on 22 February 1958
Colares: Brazilian Air Force Operation Saucer, October to December 1977
Falcon Lake: Burns treated at Misericordia Hospital, Winnipeg, on 20 May 1967
Cash-Landrum: Lawsuit against the US government dismissed on 21 August 1986

Speculation The injuries and investigations are on record. The cause is rated on each page, mostly Speculation. How we rate evidence

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The Villas Boas case (Brazil, 1957) · A 23-year-old Brazilian farmer said beings took him aboard a craft in 1957. A doctor who examined him months…
The Falcon Lake burns (Canada, 1967) · A prospector in Manitoba said a landed craft blasted him with hot gas. Hospital staff treated burns on his…
Colares and Operation Saucer (Brazil, 1977) · On an island town in the Amazon, people said lights in the sky burned them and left puncture marks. Brazil's…
The Cash-Landrum incident (Texas, 1980) · Two women and a boy said a fiery object escorted by helicopters hovered over their car. They fell ill, an…

Sources for this overview

The Condon Report (Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects)A study of UFO reports led by the physicist Edward Condon at the University of Colorado for the US Air Force, 1966 to 1968. Its report, made public in January 1969, said more study of UFOs was unlikely to add to science, and the Air Force closed Project Blue Book that year. Critics said it was biased.Condon Report (1968), Case 22Primary text
WikipediaA free online encyclopedia written and edited by volunteers. It is a good starting point and usually lists its own sources, but anyone can change it, so we treat it as a guide to better sources, not the final word.Operação Prato, WikipediaReference
WikipediaCash–Landrum incident, WikipediaReference